Hello everyone,<br><br>I apologize for sending this notice out so late. We're looking for people willing to organize lunch bunch and grad fest. Here's how it's going to work:<br><br>- Ideally, we get two people to organize lunch bunch in the fall, two more to organize in the spring, and three people to organize gradfest (which takes the place of lunch bunch) in the winter. If you really want to do it alone and think you can handle the workload, we'll talk, but having two people seems to have worked well in the past.<br>
<br>- The people organizing lunch bunch are in charge of inviting speakers to come give the seminars from 12-1 on Fridays. Since we currently have little or no money to invite people, try to stick to local people. Also, if you can con other grad students into giving short talks, that's also a plus.<br>
<br>- The format of lunch bunch should be similar to last year. This means that instead of inviting one speaker to give a 50 minute talk, you can invite two speakers a week to each give shorter talks if you want to (this often works well if your speakers are graduate students). Also, the topics of the talks do not necessarily have to be about research (although they certainly can be). So, for instance, if you have a great idea for a speaker who could come and talk about jobs outside of academia, scientific writing for the public, or any other topic that you feel would be interesting and helpful to the grad students and the department as a whole, feel free to invite them. <br>
<br>If you're interested, please send me an email (<a href="mailto:anne.jacobs@email.ucr.edu">anne.jacobs@email.ucr.edu</a>). If you're considering organizing lunch bunch for fall quarter, please contact me as soon as possible so that we can get started right away. (If I'm not mistaken, fall quarter might actually have fewer slots to fill because of all the Friday holidays, so consider this a bonus if you volunteer for that quarter.)<br>
<br>Anne Jacobs<br><br><br>